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    Default Anyone from the New haven/Waterbury area

    So I know all of 3 people who actually own and use their boards, and theyre never down for sessions, so whos from around here, and what hills do you usually bomb?
    im from bethany, so i just screw around on the side roads because my town is basically one giant hill



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    Default Re: Anyone from the New haven/Waterbury area

    There's a fun garage in Waterbury that we hit on occasion. Best to go on weekends when there's no security. It's the one behind the Palace theater.
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    Default Re: Anyone from the New haven/Waterbury area

    Howdy - Beacon Falls here...

    Indeed the garage in Waterbury shreds. Scovill St. Parking Garage - directions are on the Palace Theater Website. If you go - make sure there are no attendents and then go to the top to park. I have seen Waterbury police just hanging out up top.

    Not into screaming down mondo hills here for this old geezer. Seymour has a couple of good runs - we had a slide fest there last year. Beacon Falls and Oxford have some decent runs too - but Bethany probaly beats them all for hill size.

    Look for New Haven sessions with Wayne from Sur-Rodz. Street cruising and garage shoping - lots of fun though. His boards are way sick - super huge cruisers.

    I want to try the bike path in Cheshire - yes mellow crusing - but it would be good exercise. We have done the Farminting Trail too - Spudman found an abanded 4 story garage. Gotta check that out sometime.

    We should definately meet up sometime and hit up the garage. I am off to Flordia for a week next week - but will look here for some possible runs afterwards.

    You want fast downhill??? Hook up with RBriggs - he will not disappoint...

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    Default Re: Anyone from the New haven/Waterbury area

    Quote Originally Posted by ConnLongboarder View Post

    I want to try the bike path in Cheshire - yes mellow crusing - but it would be good exercise. We have done the Farminting Trail too - Spudman found an abanded 4 story garage. Gotta check that out sometime.
    do not, i repeat do NOT do the section from higgins to cornwall...MASSIVE cracks (4-5 inches wide)
    broke my wrist. sucked.

    but yeah hit me up when youre back
    im not gonna risk getting into uber dh until i get a new setup

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    wow that does suck - that is not the section in Cheshire is it? My daughter broke her wrist when we did the Farmington trail - she was on her bike though. Either way that biotch claimed two broken wrists that I know of!

    Talk to youwhen I am back...
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    Default Re: Anyone from the New haven/Waterbury area

    Howdy - back from Florida - looking to set up some sessions at the Waterbury garage, and maybe the Farmington Trail.

    Anyone around the weekend of the 4th? We could do a day session at the Garage maybe.

    I gotta get Dave from Fifth Deminsion on a longboard. He is a snowboarder and has yet to try longboarding. I told him I would be trying to plan something, and will ask him to join us once we get it figured out.

    Shout back some dates/times that are good for you.
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    Default Re: Anyone from the New haven/Waterbury area

    Quote Originally Posted by leeks View Post
    So I know all of 3 people who actually own and use their boards, and theyre never down for sessions, so whos from around here, and what hills do you usually bomb?
    im from bethany, so i just screw around on the side roads because my town is basically one giant hill

    Ok, well I live next to Chesire in Camden, but I have don't the whole canal way multiple times. There's the smallest uphill grade when going towrds chesire making pumping a little bit harder. It's easier to start in Chesire and work your way down to Hamden/New Haven. What are these cracks you speak of, because I haven't run into anything that bad on the Canal way.

    I can give you guys some pointers.

    Leeks you already know of the nice stash of hills by the Hamden/North Haven border, near Arlen Davie. you guys should go there. If you need actual directions to some good runs there just ask, I can head you towards some speed runs or some long mellow turny 25 mph carving runs that can be taken as speed runs if you push/tuck well enough.

    I'll be home around the 22nd of august. There are some runs in Chesire I found too, but pavement is sketchy.

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